Tag Archives: Bangalore

We sent the cast to Bangalore. We went looking for an office. It was a hard task. Harder than any of them thought. There are a lot of choices for a small tech organization in india and a lot of opinions among the cast. So they ultimately resorted to numbers – not because they trusted numbers. They used a numerical process to build trust in themselves.

How do you think about data? How do you you look for an office in Bangalore?

And how do you deal with a country that has a holiday for statistics?

This episode starts with with the Stats Holiday, moves through a real estate agent brimming with confidence in his own ability to understand the client’s needs, and ends with a staff member who dreams of a new office within walking distance of a Premier League Cricket Stadium.

What does all this tell you about Big Data? That it is only part of our business experience.

Bangalore. Bengaluru. India’s High Tech Capital. If you’re gong to be a global podcast, you have to have an office somewhere near MG Road. The How We Manage Stuff team arrives in Bangalore – well most of it arrives in Bangalore – to find a place to work and to build a practice based on Big Data.

Time to open an international office, start to build connections in high tech centers outside of the United States. Our first place will be in Bangalore, though we have yet to find a place. However, our newest employee, Jameela, has a long list of potential places. However, to make a choice, we have to assemble a team, build some trust, and make a plan that will lead us to a decision – a challenge in any environment much less a distributed international one. How do you build an distributed team? That is our first task.

It's a way of teaching you what is going on in the work of technology and organizations without making you feel the cut of the knife.

We explore the big issues of the day, important issues, but we do it by telling stories. Our stories capture what is happening with artificial intelligence, big data, the internet of things, the changing world of global management. And our brilliant cast tells these stories with humor, insight and more than a little irony. It's the best way to keep ahead of technology and organization.

You'll feel smarter just by clicking "play" and you'll have a good time listening.